So how fares the meteorite market in these recessionary times? The supply is very low and the demand has really been going up in the last few years, says Farmer. Prices have quadrupled on certain items just in the last year. He is currently working on a $1.5 million sale of a 120-pound meteorite. He once negotiated in a similar price range with the Russians for a whopper weighing 3.5 tons. Having been burned investing in less rock-solid opportunities, Farmer says he's learned to keep his money in his inventory.
The phonograph, invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison, sent music on the sharpest tangent in its history. Mark Coleman writes about how the phonograph changed the music listening experience in his book, Playback: from the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money.
in 1885 thomas edison wrote i have not heard a bird sing since i was twelve no one is really sure just how edison lost most of his hearing yet this man invented the first machine that could capture sound and play it back in fact the phonograph was his favorite invention the first phonograph was invented in 1877 at the menlo park lab a piece of tin foil was wrapped around the cylinder in the middle you shouted a short message into the piece on one side of the cylinder while you turned the handle inside this piece was a needle